After more than 50 years of cold war the US and Cuba are warming up and agreed to have relations.... The diplomatic kind.
US is going to lift restrictions on banking and travel. Those restrictions date all the way back to when Fidel Castro took power in Cuba during the Cold War. Obama used executive authority to dial back restrictions, but it’s still up to Congress to give the OK to lift the whole embargo.
The New York International Salsa Congress Dance & Music Festival is celebrated every Labor Day weekend. Salseros and salseras from all around the world come to town for the New York International Salsa Congress Dance & Music Festival—and dance cards fill up at a fast and furious pace. The action unfolds at the New York Hilton Midtown, with a full schedule of workshops, performances, competitions, live music including sets by Bronx conga king Eddie Montalvo and the Jimmy Bosch Orchestra and DJs spinning tunes well into the early morning hours.
New York Hilton Midtown
A constitutional amendment to overturn the Citizens United decision and to restore the principle of one voice, one vote in our electoral process has been introduced.
This Democracy for All Amendment would reverse destructive Supreme Court decisions like Citizens United v. FEC, that have given corporations and the wealthiest donors the right to buy unlimited influence in our elections. Crowley joins Reps. Over 100 members of US Congress support the constitutional amendment.
Employees at stores and fast food restaurants went on strike last year expressing their financial difficulties as a result of the minimum wage. The minimum wage is not high enough to cover basic costs of living in this country. Residents in NYC, Chicago, Detroit, LA, Boston, and St. Louis displayed their frustrations by picketing and or by striking.
As the federal government shutdown heads towards its third week, US Congressman representing The Bronx says he has continued to voice opposition to this reckless and destructive government shutdown.
TOUCHING ENTITLEMENTS IS OUT OF BOUNDS (OOB)
QUESTION?
WOULD YOU SUPPORT CUTTING SOCIAL ENTITLEMENTS?
THESE PEOPLE HAVE NO RIGHTS TO TOUCH ENTITLEMENTS TO FIX (OTHER) PROBLEMS.
PEOPLE PAID ALL THEIR LIVES TO GET THEM.
FOR THEM TO THINK THAT THEY CAN USE THIS TO FIX THE DEBT OR ANY OTHER UNRELATED MESS IS RIDICULOUS.
THE PROBLEM WAS CAUSED BY MILITARY CRAP.
THAT IS WHERE THE CUTS SHOULD COME FROM TO FIX RELATED PROBLEMS.
GOOD SUBJECT FOR A POLL!!!
SHOULD THE CONGRESS HAVE THE ABILITY TO CUT ENTITLEMENTS TO
FIX DEBT ISSUES RELATED TO MILITARY SPENDING.
Demand that members of Congress stop getting paid during their self-inflicted government shutdown. It is morally reprehensible that hardworking federal employees will stop receiving their paychecks, while Congress still gets paid for refusing to do the job they were elected to do.
My fellow Americans, tonight I want to talk to you about Syria, why it matters and where we go from here.
US Representative Rep. Scott Rigell, a second term Republican from Virginia has penned a letter that will be sent to the president later today.
Rigell is joined by dozens of his Republican and Democratic colleagues in demanding that the president first acquire consent from Congress, citing the War Powers Resolution of 1973, before responding militarily to the Syrian government’s purported use of chemical weapons on Aug. 21.
Last week $85 billion in across-the-board federal spending cuts were triggered as a result of sequestration, which will affect nearly every agency throughout the government. For most agencies that support museums, including IMLS, NEA, NEH and NSF this means a five percent cut in their annual funding, including a reduction in grant-making activities for the year ahead.